Wasn't it on Dale Street? Did they have another den in L12 ? Was always a treat to visit, got some Mexican jumping beans in there one time.

Back in the 60's-early 70's it used to be tucked in on the right hand side of Moorfields as you walked up to Tithebarn Street towards Exchange Station, just about where Moorfields Station was later built back then and is now.

I think that photo is of it when it was at that place.

It may well then have moved to Dale Street when the original premises got demolished for the Station construction but I can't confirm.

It was a great little shop for every mischievous schoolboy and prankster.

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Back in the 60's-early 70's it used to be tucked in on the right hand side of Moorfields as you walked up to Tithebarn Street towards Exchange Station, just about where Moorfields Station was later built back then and is now.

I think that photo is of it when it was at that place.

It may well then have moved to Dale Street when the original premises got demolished for the Station construction but I can't confirm.

It was a great little shop for every mischievous schoolboy and prankster.

Showing my lack of age there , I am sure it was on Dale St near the courts in the 80s and 90s. Pranking, wigs and itching powder sadly less in demand these days.

The first one shows where I remember the Wizards being, just about where that canopy is on the right hand side looking up to Exchange and it even looks like it might be a school lad in shorts that may well be peering in the window. That's where Moorfields Station now stands

The second shot has some detail about the (original) shop in Moorfields being purchased by the Corpy for the redevelopment in 71 and in the text it also mentions that it then relocated to Lord Street Arcade before moving back to Moorfields in '74 (I think 1924(!) is actually a misprint).

The third shows what I suspect was the 'new' Moorfields location on the other side of the road that some of you remember it being in.

The Mini seems to be an O or P reg, hard to tell, which dates it to mid 70's, so it would fit.

Gully, as far as I can make out the reg number of the Mini is LBG845R which a Liverpool/Bootle plate from 76/77, if my memory serves me right.

The Mini looks like it is suspiciously parked outside of the medical supplies shop which sold gentleman's accoutrements for the weekend. The man who ran it must have been a registered medical practitioner because he wore a white coat, so I've been told.

The first one shows where I remember the Wizards being, just about where that canopy is on the right hand side looking up to Exchange and it even looks like it might be a school lad in shorts that may well be peering in the window. That's where Moorfields Station now stands

The second shot has some detail about the (original) shop in Moorfields being purchased by the Corpy for the redevelopment in 71 and in the text it also mentions that it then relocated to Lord Street Arcade before moving back to Moorfields in '74 (I think 1924(!) is actually a misprint).

The third shows what I suspect was the 'new' Moorfields location on the other side of the road that some of you remember it being in.

The Mini seems to be an O or P reg, hard to tell, which dates it to mid 70's, so it would fit.

Never expected that from you, there was never an 'O' registration, jumped from N to P.

I think it's a warehouse, those middle doors on each floor, and I'm guessing by the way the light is hitting the photo, perhaps the shot could have been taken around here so that it was possibly behind on Parr Street.

Can't find anything there on streetview these days nor via Google for old warehouses/blitz damage etc.

I think it's a warehouse, those middle doors on each floor, and I'm guessing by the way the light is hitting the photo, perhaps the shot could have been taken around here so that it was possibly behind on Parr Street.

Can't find anything there on streetview these days nor via Google for old warehouses/blitz damage etc.

Do you reckon thatís all the same building Gulley? Even the part with knobs on? Certainly looks to be taken from that central part of Dukey.That shop didnít look like it took much demolishing.

The warehouse looking building and the one with the spire are two different buildings arenít they? The spire one being behind the warehouse.

I think it's the same building. It would be a quite remarkable coincidence of alignment if it wasn't.

The eleborate bit at the top is probably to enclose the 'jigger loft' (something I learn't from here. Pity there's no pictures showing..), the place that held the hoist mechanism for lifting and lowering stuff from the storage floors. That round hole is probably where the hoist would poke out from.

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Not much help from this photo taken 6 years later, although the lamps compare nicely. I assume the whitened bottom part is a black-out requirement, but why the white sections on the glass? Not many 2 storey buildings though.

Not sure on that. I initially thought the whitewash(?) inside the lamp might be a method of shielding the light but early black out regulations involved absolutely no street lights being lit at all. Perhaps the was just an attempt at a light diffusing method tried out before the war.Also, most pics I've seen of the blackout era seem to have black and white stripes on the lamp bases and other street furniture though perhaps it was variably applied, down to the local corporations and paint availability. Needs a bit of research to be definitive.

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Not sure on that. I initially thought the whitewash(?) inside the lamp might be a method of shielding the light but early black out regulations involved absolutely no street lights being lit at all. Perhaps the was just an attempt at a light diffusing method tried out before the war.Also, most pics I've seen of the blackout era seem to have black and white stripes on the lamp bases and other street furniture though perhaps it was variably applied, down to the local corporations and paint availability. Needs a bit of research to be definitive.

All electric by this time I assume? Not that it's relevant.

The original pic: was it taken from the corner of a street? looks like to me. If so there is only one street at that end of Duke st(west side) that doesn't lead across to a street on the opposite side, that's York* street.Line of sight from there would take you through that Art Deco? car park and through Wolstenholme Sq/Parr St.

I've scoured the Internet for a picture, or sketch, of the Rosalind street Wesleyan methodist church in Kirkdale, to no avail.It was built in 1877 and lasted til the second world war when, I think, it was bombed.My wife is doing her family tree and some of her relatives were baptised there in the early 1900's.Any help in tracing down an image would be greatly appreciated

From Google it seems to have been known to have been either in Bootle or Kirkdale. depends on what search criteria you use, ie take out the 'Wesleyan' and you get slightly different results.

I've had a quick looksee around but nothing is coming up on images despite various search variations though I'll persist for a while, it's a challenge...

Annoyingly, there probably is an old photo that features it, or a sketch, though likely it's currently misattributed or under a different title on somewhere like Yo! but it wouldn't be identifiable as such unless we have an original picture of what it looked like.

I know that the enormous scale of the Liverpool Blitz damage was heavily censored at the time but it would be nice to think that the official Blitz damage photos, possibly even of before and after comparisons, still exist somewhere (I'm convinced they would have been taken for official records) but they just haven't yet been located or uploaded yet.

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From Google it seems to have been known to have been either in Bootle or Kirkdale. depends on what search criteria you use, ie take out the 'Wesleyan' and you get slightly different results.

I've had a quick looksee around but nothing is coming up on images despite various search variations though I'll persist for a while, it's a challenge...

Annoyingly, there probably is an old photo that features it, or a sketch, though likely it's currently misattributed or under a different title on somewhere like Yo! but it wouldn't be identifiable as such unless we have an original picture of what it looked like.

I know that the enormous scale of the Liverpool Blitz damage was heavily censored at the time but it would be nice to think that the official Blitz damage photos, possibly even of before and after comparisons, still exist somewhere (I'm convinced they would have been taken for official records) but they just haven't yet been located or uploaded yet.

Aye, it does look like a forlorn quest unfortunately.It would probably be in someones family album somewhere as well as official records.Thanks for trying anyway mate

It seems that the move to convert the gas lights to electric started around '47

I can certainly remember the local gaslight lamps in the late 50s, and it was the mid 50s before our landlord saw fit to convert our house to electricity; I won't forget the struggle to lump the accumulator home.

It was indeed a gents urinal Gulley, you can just see the top step at the far end of the railings. Smelled like an ammonia plant. The church is the Baptist variety on Princes Avenue.What I'd like to know is where the trams/buses (26,72 and 73) that should be coming in from the right had to go instead.